Mozilla Foundation activities, week ending 2008/06/06

This is my report on activities related to the Mozilla Foundation for the week ending June 6, 2008.

Projects for the week

Here’s a summary of what Foundation-related activities went on last week; for more information about others’ activities please see the weekly status reports published by David Boswell, Gerv Markham, and Zak Greant.

• Grants and related expenditures
  • Alexander Surkov completed the intermediate milestone on his Mozilla Foundation-funded project to develop automated tests and regression fixes in the Mozilla accessibility module; so far he’s fixed 16 outstanding bugs (relating to crashes, regressions, and new features), as well as kept the accessibility API documentation up to date and worked on several other accessibility-related tasks.
  • Proceedings, slides, and an attendee list have now been published for the Foundations of Open Media Software 2008 workshop, for which the Mozilla Foundation was a sponsor.
• Legal issues
  • I approved a new privacy policy for mozilla.org sites and David Boswell posted it to www.mozilla.org. (Note that this is a separate policy from the privacy policy for mozilla.com sites, although it is based on that policy.)
• CAs and related issues
  • Gerv [proposed some ideas][propose] as to how we might address the [Debian weak key problem][Debian] in a Mozilla context.
  • Kathleen Wilson is waiting on responses from CAs to close out her information-gathering work on their requests. I worked with her to identify a set of new requests to look at, including those for Trustis (bug [324126][324126]), Microsec Ltd (bug [370505][370505]), S-TRUST (bug [370627][370627]), and TC TrustCenter (bug [378882][378882]).
  • I put [Entrust][]’s request to enable the Entrust Root Certification Authority for EV (bug [416544][416544]) into the [first public comment period][first p].
• Public communication
  • David Boswell continued work on a new www.mozilla.org design brief.
  • David worked to help produce a new draft of the proposed [Mozilla brochure][Mozilla02] and get model release forms signed for people whose photos appear in the brochure.
• Conferences
  • Zak Greant continued work on the proposed [FOSSCoach][FOSSCoa] event at OSCON.
• Other
  • Gerv Markham worked on a project to calculate what percentage of the world’s Internet users have a localized version of Firefox available in their native language.
  • Gerv also worked on a project to compile a definitive domain suffix list, e.g., suffixes like "co.uk" that do not themselves refer to web sites (unlike, e.g., "co.org"); this list could be useful in contexts like handling of cookies, bookmarks, etc.

Upcoming events and activities

• The Mozilla Foundation will be a sponsor of the [Personal Democracy Forum conference][Persona] (June 23-24 in New York NY). Brian Behlendorf will be speaking there, and I’m also planning to attend.
• David, Gerv, and Zak will be attending OSCON (July 21-25 in Portland OR) and the Firefox Summit (July 29-31 in Whistler BC). I will be attending the Firefox Summit but not OSCON.

[propose]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.security/browse_thread/thread/b2cda44a0e6c4d5c[Debian]: http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys [324126]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324126 [370505]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370505 [370627]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370627 [378882]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378882 [Entrust]: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/pending/#Entrust [416544]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416544 [first p]: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.crypto/browse_thread/thread/8ae9fe7c28ec563d[Mozilla02]: http://davidwboswell.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/creating-a-mozilla-brochure/ [FOSSCoa]: http://fosscoach.wikia.com/wiki/FOSSCoach [Persona]: http://pdf2008.confabb.com/conferences/60420-personal-democracy-forum-2008